Whirlpool Productions – From: Disco To: Disco

During the late ’90s and early 2000s, Whirlpool Productions – a Cologne-based outfit whose members included exiled Californian Eric D Clark and future Kompakt regular Justus Kohncke – delivered a string of killer 12″ singles that blurred the boundaries between micro-house, deep house, disco and Italo. Their greatest dancefloor hit was undoubtedly 1996’s ‘From Disco To Disco’, a freewheeling affair that featured improvised vocals and electric piano motifs over a throbbing, Italo-disco style bassline and sturdy house beats. This timely reissue pairs a remastered version of the band’s original mix with a later Tiefschwarz remix that’s more druggy, undeniably heavier and laden with additional pots-and-pans percussion. It’s a fine rework that compliments the untouchable original mix.